The hashtag, which surfaced in February, was a response to a series of controversies surrounding the platform, including their planned changes to user experience and timelines, as well as showing hostility to the site’s conservative voices, one being Breitbart Techeditor Milo Yiannopoulos after “de-verifying” his account.

However, Dorsey defended his decisions, arguing that “you take a long-term view of we’re making this better and we know it’s better and we have to continue to serve the people who love us and this really comes from a good place and not a negative place.”

“I think any change is hard for people but we’re going to do it in a way that makes Twitter better, [but] we found a lot of people turning it on and we haven’t found a lot of people turning it off,” he said.